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In
AMERICAN NATIONS, Woodard leads us through the history of our fractured
continent, and the rivalries and alliances between its component
nations. He explains why “American values” vary sharply from one region
to another—how an idea like “freedom” as understood by an East Texan or
Idahoan can be the polar opposite of what it means to a New Englander or
San Franciscan. Woodard reveals how
intra-national differences have played a pivotal role at every point in
the continent’s history, right up into the 2012 election cycle.
AMERICAN NATIONS is a revolutionary and revelatory take on America’s
myriad identities, and how the conflicts between them have shaped our
past and mold our future.There
isn’t and never has been one America, Colin Woodard argues, but rather
several Americas. The original North American colonies were settled by
people from distinct regions of the British Islands, and from France,
the Netherlands, and Spain, each with unique religious, political, and
ethnographic characteristics. Some championed individualism, others
utopian social reform. Some believed themselves guided by divine
purpose, others freedom of conscience and inquiry. Some embraced an
Anglo-Saxon Protestant identity,
others ethnic and religious pluralism. Some valued equality and
democratic participation, others deference to a traditional aristocratic
order. All of them continue to uphold their respective ideals today,
with results that can be seen on the composition of the U.S.
Congress or the county-by-county election maps of most any competitive
presidential election of the past two centuries.